1989 Movies

An anti-fascist story of village children, set in 1939 in Slovakia.

A look at the life and works of Vera Mukhina, nicknamed "the queen of Soviet sculpture."

Pink film distributed by Xces / Nikkatsu

Documentary about the German city of Boppard

A fisherman waits on the quay for prey. But when a fish finally bites, unusual things start to happen...

Walking a thematic tightrope, Norbert Meissner here puts media technology to the test. The universal event of pentecost is the moment of the highest r...

A petty thief breaks into the mansion of a wealthy industrialist, hoping to make off with something valuable. Instead, the inhabitants welcome him wit...

An industrial plant pollutes Lake Sevan with discharges. The public demands to close harmful production. The responsible worker, who is in charge of t...

Experimental short film

Young Elisabeth goes on a country trip with her mother, her friends Reinhard and Erich, their parents and the pastor. While the adults prepare a picni...

Out of the blue, harmless citizens suddenly fall upon their fellow men and brutally slaughter them. The authorities are puzzled. Only Fritjoff Dumpf,...

An innovative act in its time. The eponymous video album of the popular heavy-metal band Tublatanka, the basis of which is a live recording of a conce...

Mexican feature film

Three teenagers from the industrial part of Los Angeles try to form a punk rock band in Hollywood, in this feature length film by renowned artist Raym...

A ranger whose passion is nude painting comes to work in a remote Bosnian village. He asks the local women to pose naked for him. They are shy at firs...

In the “Prefaces” series, Labarthe takes us to discover the Polish writer Bruno Schulz. André S. Labarthe presents some drawings and literary fragment...

With a heavily pregnant empress at the altar, a completely new history begins: the Bishop of Vienna declares the pregnant Sissi and Emperor Franz Jose...

Features clips from 21 documentary and animation film classics, interviews with NFB filmmakers past and present, and incisive commentary from film cri...

In interviews, several important GDR personalities and also GDR citizens comment on the events of October 1989.